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SUMMARY:Louisiana Reimagines: High Culture Below Sea Level - Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Behind the Scenes with Laura Anderson Barbata and Shaka Zulu \n“Louisiana Reimagines: High Culture Below Sea Level” is an exchange between Laura Anderson Barbata and local tradition bearers from the Black Masking Indian tradition that responds to the garments and stilt dancing projects presented in the Newcomb Art Museum’s 2021 exhibition “Transcommunality”. Offering a look into the cultural world of Big Chief Shaka Zulu of the Golden Feather Hunters\, this program is centered on Shaka Zulu’s distinct yet ever-evolving New Orleans practice which combines procession\, drumming\, elaborate 3d suits\, and West African stilt dancing.  \nIn March and April 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic\, the two artists conducted a series of conversations via Zoom. Together they explored many topics related to creativity and stilt-dancing\, such as the ancestral origins of Shaka’s practices and the healing power of the arts. They also discussed Shaka’s role as a youth mentor\, the production of his suits and some of the spiritual philosophies guiding his work. Highlights of this cross-cultural dialog are presented as a series of video clips and offer an informal behind-the-scenes impression of the artists’ online exchange. \nA work for camera by Shaka Zulu shot in Tremé and directed by Abdul Aziz will premiere at the museum June 26 and features local performers on stilts and percussion who represent four generations of Zulu’s family. Later in July\, a virtual roundtable conversation led by Dr. Joyce Marie Jackson will also consider the processional art form’s power to foster diverse\, intergenerational community relationships and Super Sunday’s historical connections to protests for social justice.  \nUsing the “Transcommunality” exhibit and Shaka Zulu’s work for camera as touchstones\, the roundtable in July gathers voices from the stilt dancing community – Najja Codrington of the Brooklyn Jumbies and Sarauniya Zulu of Zulu Connection – as well as three legendary figures of masking culture in New Orleans: Big Queen Rita Dollis of the Wild Magnolias; Big Chief Derrick Hulin of the Golden Blades; and Big Chief Darryl Montana of the Yellow Pocahontas Hunters.  \nExplore these behind the scenes exchanges below! \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThese programs are funded in part under a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities\, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views\, findings\, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. They are also supported in part by a New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Community Partnership Grant and by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nAbout Shaka Zulu: \nBased in downtown New Orleans\, Big Chief Shaka Zulu is the multi-talented leader of the Golden Feather Hunters\, a tribe of Black masking Indians whose spiritual traditions of song and pageantry are known globally. Chief Shaka is a culture bearer involved with many aspects of Louisiana’s street culture and performance scene – including African and Haitian music\, to which he was introduced as a child by his father\, Zohar Israel. A versatile and frequent collaborator\, Chief Shaka has worked with the Kumbuka African Drum & Dance Collective since the early 1980s; played drums with Big Chief Smiley Ricks and his band Indians of the Nation; and toured internationally with Donald Harrison Jr. as a percussionist and vocalist for his band Congo Nation. Chief Shaka is a master of the African djun-jun drum and also plays many other percussive instruments.  \nChief Shaka began stilt dancing at a young age performing with the company Free Spirit of New Orleans. Since 1986 he has performed around the world as a featured solo stilt dancer as well as with his own performing arts company\, Zulu Connection. He is known for spellbinding audiences with his colorful and elaborate costumes\, tremendous heights\, extraordinary acrobatics\, and dance moves. His work as a stilt dancer has been presented at festivals and events in New Orleans as well as in China; Germany\, the Netherlands\, Jamaica\, Bermuda\, Trinidad and Tobago\, South Africa\, Tanzania\, and Morocco\, among other places. \nChief Shaka is initiated into the secret and sacred art form of stilt dancing and also educates youth in his community on the culture\, discipline\, and need for preservation of this guarded ancient custom. He is committed to the growth and educational prosperity of local youth; and also manages and teaches for the New Orleans chapter of Better Family Life\, a youth summer cultural enrichment camp. \nAs a Black masking Indian\, Chief Shaka has exhibited his suits nationally and internationally at museums and festivals – including the 2015 exhibit “New Orleans – The Sound of a City” in Berlin which was supported by the US Embassy; the 2017 exhibit “Carnival Around the World” at the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal\, The Netherlands; on Martha’s Vineyard in 2019; and for nearly two decades in Asheville\, North Carolina\, each year with the LEAF International festival\, where he is also a youth educator and involved with LEAF’s programming in Tanzania and Haiti. Locally\, Chief Shaka’s suits have been exhibited at The Presbytère\, part of the Louisiana State Museum; at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts; and in his own Golden Feather Mardi Gras Indian Gallery which was previously located on Rampart Street. \nRecently Chief Shaka and Naimah Zulu\, his artistic partner to whom he is married\, also produced the vibrant and historical stage production  “New Orleans Voices of Congo Square” at the OrpheumTheater which featured an array of magical music\, colorful dance\, and mysterious masking Indian culture. \n\nAbout Laura Anderson Barbata: \nI am a bicultural\, transdisciplinary artist. Since 1992 I have developed sustainable art-centered projects that integrate collaborative and participatory work that addresses issues of social justice and the environment. As a Mexican born\, New York based artist\, it is my belief that a shared artistic social practice can serve as a platform on which we connect\, learn\, exchange\, create\, and transcend borders in order to activate our sense of belonging to a global community. My work seeks to further the expectations of socially-engaged art by involving collaborators such as archives\, scientists\, activists\, musicians\, street dancers\, and artisans to create works that operate both inside and outside of the art world. Since 2001 I began to work with stilt dancers in Trinidad and Tobago\, and since 2007 have consistently collaborated with the Brooklyn Jumbies\, and in 2012 with the Zancudos de Zaachila from Oaxaca\, Mexico. The work combines character and narrative development with numerous collaborators in addition to textile arts\, sculpture\, dance\, masking\, music\, procession\, improvisation\, ritual and protest. \n– Laura Anderson Barbata \n\nAdditional Resources: \nTranscribed Copies of the Videos \n2019 interview with Shaka Zulu at Xavier University of Louisiana; Produced and directed by Kim Vaz- Deville\, Filmed and edited by Lexcie Thomas. https://digitalcommons.xula.edu/masked/7/ \n2016 interview with Shaka Zulu at the Golden Feather Restaurant & Gallery https://vimeo.com/180939157 \n2008 educational project with Shaka Zulu at Higher Ground in Oakland\, California \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkJVHOhfDFE&feature=youtu.be \n2013 video documentation of Zulu Connection performance in Knoxville\, Tennessee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSI_6-vo-5M&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8zz5TP_5wo \n2018 “Voices of Congo Square” stage production trailer https://vimeo.com/292132231 \n2015 Shaka Zulu exhibition in Berlin \nhttps://www.offbeat.com/news/sound-city-exhibit-makes-waves-berlin/ \nDec 2020 memorial for 1900 mass lynching site in New Orleans https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_ca7abefc-4171-11eb-a3aa- c35babfbe7de.html \nClick to learn more about Laura Anderson Barbata’s exhibition at Newcomb!
URL:https://newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu/event/louisiana-reimagines-high-culture-below-sea-level/
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SUMMARY:Reciprocal Exchanges
DESCRIPTION:DATES TBA \nLocal artists and culture bearers will exchange techniques and practices in the spirit of Laura Anderson Barbata’s Transcommunality and an economy of sharing. Each exchange –centered on wearable art – will be released as a short film presented to the public\, showcasing the artists’ practices and opening new creative possibilities through engagement.Zoom registration link coming shortly\, in the meantime sign up for our e-newsletter to stay up to date with all things Newcomb! \n  \n\nThese programs are funded in part under a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities\, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views\, findings\, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. They are also supported in part by a New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Community Partnership Grant and by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans.
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SUMMARY:Uncommon Exchanges
DESCRIPTION:Newcomb Art Museum in partnership with A Studio in the Woods\, The ByWater Institute at Tulane University\, and New Orleans Center for the Gulf South presents Uncommon Exchanges: Indigo\, a unique dialogue between unlikely pairings of Tulane and Gulf South experts. LaChaun Moore and Dr. Sabia McCoy-Torres will use the museum’s current exhibition\, Transcommunality by Laura Anderson Barbata\, as a catalyst for conversation to remedy missing narratives and provide paths forward –through creative means – to a more equitable and just future. Moderated by Jeffery Darensbourg\, Uncommon Exchanges will premiere at 6 pm on April 21 followed by a live Q&A with panelists and exhibiting artist\, Laura Anderson Barbata. Register for the Zoom event on April 21 at 6 pm via the link here. \n  \n\nThese programs are funded in part under a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities\, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views\, findings\, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. They are also supported in part by a New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Community Partnership Grant and by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nAbout the panelists: \nSabia McCoy-Torres is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Department of Anthropology and Program in Africana Studies. She has a Ph.D. in social and cultural anthropology from Cornell University. Her research focuses on the English and Spanish speaking African Diaspora\, race\, gender/sexuality\, transnationalism\, and Black popular music and performance. Dr. McCoy-Torres’ current book project uses reggae culture as an ethnographic lens to interpret these dynamics within the West Indian Diaspora in Costa Rica and Brooklyn\, New York. Her work has been published in Popular Music & Society; Black Music Research Journal; and Transforming Anthropology\, for which she is a Contributing Editor. She has a forthcoming article in The Global South. Dr. McCoy-Torres’ course offerings include: The Anthropology of Race; Urban Music: Race\, Class\, and Sexuality; Blackness in Latin America; Black Transnational Culture; and Race and Migration. \nLaChaun Moore is an interdisciplinary artist who engages the public with her ethnographic fiber making and research practice. Her practice focuses on plant species that are linked specifically to Black and Indigenous farmers who have been systematically exploited for their agricultural ingenuity. She earned her BFA in Integrated Design at Parsons\, The New School for Design with a focus on Alternative Fashion Strategies and Social Practice. There she began her grant-funded research “Perceptions of Cotton and Agriculture within the African American Community.” She has since built a small-scale farm growing naturally-colored green and brown cotton as well as ancestral indigo sourced from a Low Country plantation. As part of her research LaChaun co-hosts the WEAVE podcast. Her work envisions investigating\, documenting\, and implementing ancestral knowledge as the start to chipping away at the inequalities within the fiber system. \nAbout the moderator: \n\nJeffery Darensbourg is interested in the knowledge of flora\, fauna\, and people his Atakapa-Ishak ancestors carried with them and wishes to connect this sort of Louisiana-specific knowledge to the knowledge urban Natives such as himself have in negotiating Indigeneity\, within the contemporary milieu of city life in our current social and economic climate.  Jeffery U. Darensbourg is an enrolled member and tribal councilperson of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation of mixed Native and Louisiana Creole ancestry. His work explores the intersections of cultural studies\, mixed ethnicity\, and Indigeneity. \n\n  \nAbout the artist: \nI am a bicultural\, transdisciplinary artist. Since 1992 I have developed sustainable art-centered projects that integrate collaborative and participatory work that addresses issues of social justice and the environment. As a Mexican born\, New York based artist\, it is my belief that a shared artistic social practice can serve as a platform on which we connect\, learn\, exchange\, create\, and transcend borders in order to activate our sense of belonging to a global community. My work seeks to further the expectations of socially-engaged art by involving collaborators such as archives\, scientists\, activists\, musicians\, street dancers\, and artisans to create works that operate both inside and outside of the art world. Since 2001 I began to work with stilt dancers in Trinidad and Tobago\, and since 2007 have consistently collaborated with the Brooklyn Jumbies\, and in 2012 with the Zancudos de Zaachila from Oaxaca\, Mexico. The work combines character and narrative development with numerous collaborators in addition to textile arts\, sculpture\, dance\, masking\, music\, procession\, improvisation\, ritual and protest. \n– Laura Anderson Barbata \n\nEngage with the work of the artists and scholars more: \n\n\n\n\n \n\n 
URL:https://newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu/event/uncommon-exchanges/
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SUMMARY:Family Day: Story Making\, World Building
DESCRIPTION:Cave paintings are the first art we know of\, but they were created to be stories. Stories serve many purposes – they remind us of who we are\, where we have been\, and where we are headed – connecting us across time and place. We invite you to join us as we make art that tells stories\, communicates ideas\, and opens our imaginations through age appropriate artist-led virtual workshops. Gather your family and friends virtually for a unique day of visual storytelling and creation! Click the links below to explore our virtual family day! \n  \n\n  \nThese programs are funded in part under a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities\, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views\, findings\, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. They are also supported in part by a New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Community Partnership Grant and by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nVirtual Family Day\, Story Making\, World Building Materials List and Activity Links\n \nMake Your Own Cave Art (click here) with: \n\nOne or more brown paper grocery bags \nCrayons or chalk\, or both \nScissors \n\nGoat in the Road Play/Write lessons One (click here) and Two (click here) Materials:  \n\nPaper\nPencil \nYour imagination!\n\nMake Your Own Paper (click here) and learn more about paper-making in Transcommunality (click here): \n\nLots of scrap paper \nA large broiler pan (disposable/recyclable aluminum works well) \nA blender \nWater \nA mesh screen – one from the cooking & baking department in a grocery store is ideal \nIn the video\, we’ll show how to make one with a window screen and old coat hanger or picture frame and duct tape. It’s a little more work\, but turns out great! \n\nHelpful but not required: \nSome paint stir sticks  \nFun things to add into the paper\, like string\, leaves\, glitter\, paint; anything small and lightweight you can think of! \n\nMake a Moko Jumbie Stilt Dancer (click here) with:  \n\nA piece of white paper  \n2 straws  \nYarn (less than 12 inches needed) \nScissors \nClear tape \nConstruction or printed paper \nAir dry clay OR aluminum foil \nMarkers or crayons or colored pencils \n\nAnd learn more about the Red Flame Hunters All Youth Mardi Gras Indian Tribe (click here) \n  \n 
URL:https://newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu/event/family-day-story-making-world-building/
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Public Safety in American Cities
DESCRIPTION:In this virtual program\, presented in partnership with The Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking at Tulane and moderated by Dr. Lesley Ann Noel; Brent Godfrey (Crescent City Corps)\, Ameca Reali (Law For Black Lives)\, and Christopher Rabb (Pennsylvania state House of Representatives) will respond to ideas presented in Anderson Barbata’s Intervention: Indigo which addresses\, from an intercultural perspective\, the symbolism of protection embodied by the color blue. Using design thinking strategies to address the harms of over-policing\, this discussion opens an transdisciplinary conversation that includes perspectives on public law enforcement\, behavioral health\, the Movement for Black Lives\, and US history to posit a future of public safety. Watch this past event here: https://vimeo.com/516531566 \n\nThese programs are funded in part under a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities\, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views\, findings\, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. They are also supported in part by a New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Community Partnership Grant and by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \nModerator: \nAs the Associate Director for Design Thinking for Social Impact and Professor of Practice\, Dr. Lesley-Ann Noel teaches design thinking courses for the Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Minor and build Taylor’s capacity for design thinking education through facilitations\, consultations\, and trainings. Her current research interests are on civic and social innovation\, critical design pedagogy\, equity centered design thinking\, and design thinking in public health.   \nBefore joining Taylor\, Noel was part of the 2018-2019 Ocean Design Teaching Fellowship\, a cohort of fellows that brought deep experience in design\, ocean science and international policy. The Ocean Design Teaching Fellow program is co-hosted with the Stanford d.school\, where she also served as a lecturer. In her professional practice\, she draws on the fields of design\, anthropology\, business and education to create product development and business strategy with stakeholders. Her research practice is guided by an emancipatory philosophy. Noel focuses on developing design curriculum for non-traditional audiences and promoting the work of designers outside of Europe and North America. She has exhibited work at design exhibitions in Trinidad & Tobago\, Jamaica\, Brazil\, Germany\, France and the USA. She has presented peer-reviewed papers at design conferences in the Caribbean\, the US\, the UK and India.  \nNoel completed her Ph.D. in Design at North Carolina State University in 2018. Her Ph.D. research focused on design thinking at a rural primary school in Trinidad and Tobago. She also holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of the West Indies and a bacharelado (equivalent to bachelor’s degree) in industrial design from Universidade Federal do Paraná. Lesley-Ann is a former Fulbright Scholar and a lecturer at the University of the West Indies\, St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad and Tobago. \nPanelists: \n  \nBrent Godfrey has dedicated his life to public service and is deeply passionate about helping others find their own call to serve. As a former firefighter for the New Orleans Fire Department and executive director of the Crescent City Corps\, he is working to build a movement of first responders who are committed to reimagining public safety. Also a veteran\, Brent served as an intelligence officer\, developed and taught curriculum to future naval leaders and was a strategist for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Brent is a graduate of Yale University and a current JD Candidate at the Yale Law School. \n  \n  \nChris Rabb is a father\, educator\, author\, consultant\, and member of the Pennsylvania House of Representative representing roughly 65\,000 people in upper northwest Philadelphia. A former U.S. Senate legislative aide and writer\, researcher and trainer at the White House Conference on Small Business in the Clinton administration\, Rabb is a thought leader at the intersection of politics\, media entrepreneurship and social identity. \n \nWhile a visiting researcher at Princeton University\, Rabb wrote the ground-breaking book\, Invisible Capital: How Unseen Forces Shape Entrepreneurial Opportunity (2010) which addresses modern U.S. entrepreneurship through the lens of structural inequality. In 2011\, Rabb was recruited to teach at Temple University Fox School of Business where he was the Social Impact Fellow at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute and taught social entrepreneurship and organizational innovation. In his fourth year of teaching at Temple\, Rep. Rabb helped to successfully unionize 1\,500 fellow adjunct professors in a landslide victory for worker rights. He was also a long-time board member of the national racial justice think tank\, Race Forward\, and the oldest Black\, family-owned newspaper in the U.S.\, the Baltimore Afro-American Newspaper Company\, founded by his great-great grandfather in 1892. \nIn 2018\, Rep. Rabb successfully created the first of its kind Equity Committee within the Pennsylvania House Democratic Caucus and is its founding chair which evaluates and makes recommendations regarding social equity issues related to policy\, membership\, personnel\, legal\, procurement\, communications and appropriations. \nRabb has been a fellow at Demos\, the Poynter Institute and the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. and presently serves on the boards of the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators (NCEL)\, the executive committee of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL) and a member of the National Conference of State Legislators’ Energy Supply Task Force. \nA graduate of Yale College and the University of Pennsylvania\, Rep. Rabb is a native of Chicago and an avid family historian and genealogist. \n \nAmeca Reali is presently the Membership Director at Law For Black Lives\, a Black femme-led national network of more than 5\,000 radical lawyers and legal workers committed to building a responsive legal infrastructure for movement organizations and cultivating a community of legal advocates trained in movement lawyering. Law For Black Lives staff is a team of strong Black and Latinx femmes who are deeply committed to supporting the leadership of directly impacted communities and transforming the legal field to represent the values of movement lawyering\, which are centered in building community power and democratizing the law. \nAmeca is a dedicated and entrepreneurial advocate for freedom and justice who is deeply inspired by her family and the philosophies of women like Ella Baker and bell hooks. Ameca has been working with people in Louisiana to create sustainable\, thriving communities that are safe for everyone for over 10 years. She served as a Programs Officer and then Director of Economic Justice Programs at the Foundation for Louisiana for 3 years. There she oversaw the creation of a funding strategy for statewide grant-making and programs with a focus on criminal justice reform\, housing\, public health\, arts and culture. Her work included supporting the development of numerous coalitions advocating for a vision of safety beyond cops\, cages\, and punitive systems. \nAmeca co-founded the Justice and Accountability Center in 2011 as an Echoing Green Fellow. JAC developed a mobile expungement clinic model to address and eliminate some of the collateral consequences of arrest and conviction for thousands of people across Louisiana. She earned a B.A. in Communication from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2006 and a J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 2011. In her free time Ameca loves to create costumes\, craft\, cook and go on long walks with her two dogs Prince and Rufus. \n\nAdditional Topical Resources Compiled by the Panelists and Moderator: \n\nThe End of Policing. Vitale\, Alex S. Verso\, 2017 \nAre Prisons Obsolete? Davis\, Angela Y. Seven Stories Press\, 2003 \nThe New Jim Crow. Alexander\, Michelle. The New Press\, 2010 \nPolicing a Class Society: The Experience of American Cities 1865 – 1915. Harring\, Sidney L. Haymarket Books\, 2017 \n\nWe Still Here: Pandemic\, Policing\, Protest\, and Possibility. Hill\, Marc Lamont. \n\n\nFreedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson\, Palestine\, and the Foundations of a Movement. Davis\, Angela.\n\n\nWho Do You Serve\, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States. Edited by Joe Macaré\, Maya Schenwar\, and Alana Yu-lan Price.\n\nWe Do This ’til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice. Kaba\, Mariame.\nGolden Gulag: Prisons\, Surplus\, Crisis\, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Gilmore\, Ruth Wilson. University of California Press\, 2007\nCrescent City Corp Training Seminar with New Orleans residents and the Taylor Center https://vimeo.com/384603531/5cd4d04340\nWe all have a role in discussing police reform in Michigan: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/06/14/lt-governor-garlin-gilchrist-discusses-police-reform-michigan-msnbc/3189296001/\nReimagining policing  – Community leaders\, activists\, law enforcement\, and others offer 14 ways to confront racist policing.\nhttps://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/a/reimagining-policing-community-leaders-activists-law-enforcement-confront-racism-20200606.html\nWhat we talk about when we talk about community policing –https://whyy.org/articles/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-community-policing/\n“Officers in shooting death of Trayford Pellerin should face separate charges\, family says”\, KLFY-TV\, Lafayette\, LA\, January 5\, 2021\nhttps://www.klfy.com/local/officers-in-shooting-death-of-trayford-pellerin-should-face-separate-charges-family-says/\nIntervention: Indigo (Brooklyn)\, 2015. Laura Anderson Barbata with performers Chris Walker and Brooklyn Jumbies. Music by Jarana Beat. Video documentation edited by Sandra Martin and Alejandro Mejia\, 5 min 13 sec. https://vimeo.com/176888937\nIntervention: Indigo (Mexico City)\, 2020. Laura Anderson Barbata with performers Chris Walker\, Elizabeth Ross\, Pro-Alterne Theater\, Dance UNAM\, and Diablos de la Costa Chica de Guerrero “Los Rebeldes del Capricho.” Video documentation edited by Alex Mejia\, 5 min 59 sec. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyvEN1ezo5w
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SUMMARY:Laura Anderson Barbata: Transcommunality Live Gallery Tour with the Artist and Curator
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a live Q&A and virtual gallery walk through with artist Laura Anderson Barbata\, led by the curator of the show! Register via the Zoom link here. \n  \n\n  \nThese programs are funded in part under a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities\, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views\, findings\, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. They are also supported in part by a New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Community Partnership Grant and by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans.
URL:https://newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu/event/laura-anderson-barbata-transcommunality-live-gallery-tour-with-the-artist-and-curator/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210116T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210116T140000
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SUMMARY:Laura Anderson Barbata: Transcommunality Opening Day Family Tour
DESCRIPTION:Take part in an online tour designed for families and educators\, with a make-at-home lesson plan inspired by the exhibition! The virtual tour will go live on Newcomb Art Museum’s Facebook\, Vimeo\, and via our E-Newsletter at 1 pm (CST) January 16. \n\nThese programs are funded in part under a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities\, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views\, findings\, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. They are also supported in part by a New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Community Partnership Grant and by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans.
URL:https://newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu/event/laura-anderson-barbata-transcommunality-opening-day-family-tour/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Programs
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